Blasket Spirit: Stories from the Islands
By: Anita Fennelly
4.38
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Seeking solitude after personal crisis, Anita Fennelly spent a summer alone on the Great Blasket Is…
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1. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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2. My Name Is Lucy Barton
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more
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3. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant
By: Margareta Magnusson
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Funny, wise, and deeply practical, Swedish artist Margareta Magnusson offers advice on how to declu… read more
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4. Tin Man
By: Sarah Winman
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more
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5. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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6. Anything Is Possible
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.20
Format: None pages,
Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more
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7. The Poisonwood Bible
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more
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8. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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9. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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10. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
11. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
12. Taste: My Life Through Food
By: Stanley Tucci
4.21
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more
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"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
13. Great Circle
By: Maggie Shipstead
4.11
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era M… read more
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"Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom. [Hadley Baxter]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"You don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control. [Mrs. Fahey]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
14. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
15. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
By: Elif Shafak
4.09
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour … read more
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"Grief is a swallow,"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"كانت ليلى هي الوحيدة التي اعتقدت أنه قادر على تحقيق الأشياء العظيمة"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"Because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it wasn't your own?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"How could meditation help you to quieten your mind when you needed to quieten your mind in order to meditate?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
16. The Lido
By: Libby Page
3.86
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject—and the unlik… read more
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"She took the loneliness out of being alone."-Libby Page, The Lido
"In a large townhouse, a family is spread out across its rooms, each living in their own state but under one flag"-Libby Page, The Lido
"...around puberty when the girls' bodies felt to them like uncomfortable clothes they'd love to wriggle out of. She remembers the transformation: the giggling rabble became a subdued group by the wat…"-Libby Page, The Lido
"It was rare that she got dressed up and went out, but each time a dinner party or the Christmas dinner with the other library staff came round she would stand in front of the mirror asking George to …"-Libby Page, The Lido
17. Ik ga leven
By: Lale Gül
3.42
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
‘Muziek mag niet, daten is verboden, het hebben van vrienden van het andere geslacht is onwettig, j… read more
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"Fysieke arbeid is immers voor hen die voor denken te lui zijn."-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven
"Gelukkig is vrijheid van meningsuiting iets anders dan het recht op een podium."-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven
"Zoals Victor Hugo zei Kent elk dorp een docent Die de boel verlicht En een paus Die dat licht weer dooft Maar wat als er meer docenten waren dan pausen?"-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven
"In onze cultuur moet je immers spreken met lichaamstaal, niet louter met woorden, dat is nooit overtuigend genoeg, daarom moest ik wel bijtend reageren — en daar vooral vurig bij kijken — op dit om d…"-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven
18. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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19. Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
By: Lily Ebert
4.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the powe… read more
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20. In His Father's Footsteps
By: Danielle Steel
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of s… read more
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21. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
By: Séamas O'Reilly
4.13
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more
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"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
22. Blasket Spirit: Stories from the Islands
By: Anita Fennelly
4.38
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Seeking solitude after personal crisis, Anita Fennelly spent a summer alone on the Great Blasket Is… read more
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